Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-03-31
State News Condensed.
Detroit, March, 1887.

They're boring for natural gas at Ben
ton Harbor.
Jackson wants cooperative manufac-
turing association.
A furniture factory is among the posi-
blities at Howard City.
David d. Ross, resident of Saginaw
county since lS43, is dead.
Howard City's new creamery is to have
a capacity of 1000 pounds daily.
Rev. o. Whitmore, a well-known Meth
odist minister, died at st. Ignace few
days ago.
The university glee club is making a
tour of the western states dnring the spring
vacation.
Henry Bennett, one of the oldest pion-
GERS of Jackson county, died at his home
i'm Parma, recently.
The famous Mitchell iron mine near
Negaunee has been sold to a syndicate.
The terms are private.
Col. Lochhead of Flint, and Col. Nc
Comas of Lansing are the first applicants
for Adjt.-Gen. Robertson's place.
A lumberman named Forbes was in
stantly killed by a rolling log at Coach's
camp Oh Sturgeon river the other day.
+. l.. Warren. an old resident of Cold
water, and for many years proprietor of
the Southern Michigan hotel of that city,
is dead.
Prof. Hutchins of the law department of
the university, has resigned to accept a
position in the new law faculty of Cornell
university.
In December last Fred Siebert was ar
rested at Howard City for assault with in
tent to kill his father-in-law He has just
been convicted.
Chas. Strand of Grand Rapids has been
awarded a verdict of SIS, 900 against the
Chicago IL Michigan railroad for the loss
of leg in an accident.
Lieut.. A. G. Winterhalter of Detroit, has
been appointed United States representa-
tive to the international astronomical con-
gress which meets in Paris, April 10.
Z. T. Rutter, aged 30, Detroit man
| who travels for a Maine window shade
| firm, committed suicide at the Lansing
house in Lansing the other night by taking
morphine.
Henry Fluke of Concord, Jackson coun-
| ty, took several doses of prof. Packard s
little doctor in the bottle" But death
lurked i'm that bottle, too, and Henry's
funeral was largely attended.
Mrs. Rachel Norton, widow of the Hon.
Pleasant Norton, a member of the legisla-
ture of 1883, died I'm Cassopolis on the 18th
inst. She had lived on the farm where
she died, since 1882.
Fred Vance of Midland slipped and fell
under the hose cart as the firemen were
returning from fire the other evening,
and sustained injuries which caused his
death the next morning.
Kittie Sautter of Marshall died a few
days ago under suspicious circumstances.
Investigation disclosed the fact that her
death was caused by an abortion produced
by DIR. John b. Davis of Battle Creek.
At the annual sale of cattle at the state
agricultural college SO head were sold for
So, 900, as follows: 26 shorthorns at an
average price of S122 80; Herefords at
an average price of S13S 05; Holstein at
$50.
+. w. Holcomb, aged 81 years, an in
mate of the Kent county poor house, has
obtained a pension on account of a son
who died in the union army. He is to
have $500 arrears and S12 month as long
as he lives.
Past Grand Master G. @. Griggs of the
oddfellows, died at st. Marks home In
Grand Rapids the other morning, where
he had boarded for the past two years.
lie was once wealthy and respected, but
died pauper.
DIR. G. 8. Snyder, prominent physician
Of Vermontville, administered chloroform
| to a 13-year old son of VIM. Hager for the
! purpose of performing dental operation.
The effects of the drug produced almost
| instant death.